Pourquoi passer végé ? / Les raisons et comment faire

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How A Vegan Diet Can Help You Lose Weight. People may choose a vegan diet for a variety of reasons, be it for the environment, animal ethics or health.

However, some people give the vegan diet a try purely to lose excess weight — and perhaps for good reason. Vegans tend to have lower body mass indexes (BMIs) than the general population, and several studies acknowledge that a vegan diet can promote weight loss (1, 2). Not to mention, a well-planned vegan diet is nutritious, can lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels and may even decrease your risk of certain diseases (3, 4). This article explains how a vegan diet can help you lose weight and shares some tips on how to follow this diet in a healthy way. Observational studies often report vegans to be thinner or to have lower BMIs than the general population (2, 5).
5 Foods With Huge Carbon Footprints. When you bite into a hamburger or enjoy a pile of roast asparagus, do you think about the impact it has on the environment?

Well, maybe you should. See, the food that we eat has an incredible impact on climate change. In fact, agriculture is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. What foods we choose to buy, how we choose to purchase them and how often we consume them matter to global warming. And not all foods have an equal impact.
Which Type Of Protein Is Better For Our Kidneys?
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the same.

10 Reasons Why The Meat And Dairy Industry Is Unsustainable. Editor’s note: This post is a Care2 favorite, back by popular demand.

It was originally published on December 31, 2013. Enjoy! Like it or not, you can’t hide from the fact that eating animal products creates a massive problem for everyone on the planet. Here are 10 reasons why the meat and dairy industry is unsustainable: 1. Farm animals require considerably more land than crops to produce a given amount of food energy.
4 Reasons To Choose A Plant-Based Diet (And Ways To Eat More Plant-Based Foods)
Research has linked both processed and unprocessed meat to a higher mortality rate.

On the other hand, scientific evidence shows that plant-based diets — those high in fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains — lower the risk of life-threatening diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease and so on. Here are 4 reasons you should reduce meat intake and eat more plant-based foods. 1. No need to count calories Counting calories is hectic and it can turn into an obsessive behavior.
Why Some Doctors Are Prescribing Veggies. The great father of medicine, Hippocrates, famously said the following: “Let food be thy medicine.”

We haven’t always heeded his advice. The pharmaceutical industry has exploded over the last century, and the solution to most of what ails us has come to be found in a pill. But most doctors still say that many diagnoses—especially chronic illnesses—require lifestyle changes rather than just medication.
5-things-that-happen-to-your-body-when-you-stop-eating-meat. Why Veganism Is The Future. Earlier this year scientists celebrated one of the biggest discoveries in physics within the last century. They were elated to discover the first evidence of gravitational waves, which pretty much proved Albert Einstein’s last prediction in his theory of relativity was correct.

Going down in history as one of the brightest minds to ever have lived and decades later having your work reaffirmed may just be the beginning of his brilliance, however. There is another prediction Einstein made during his life—one whose evidence mounts more and more each day: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” There has yet to be another movement that significantly addresses—and even reverses—as many of the major health and environmental concerns out there as the vegan movement.

Animal Welfare. 9 Reasons To Stop Eating Meat In Honor Of Earth Day. There are tons of psychological reasons why many people still eat meat, from cultural affiliations to early formed habits, flavor preferences and more. Whether you’re flirting with vegetarianism or reaffirming your commitment to the cause, here are a handful of reasons to stop eating meat in honor of Earth, and everything that inhabits it.

Eating meat is downright bad for the environment.
What would actually happen if we stopped eating so much meat?
If you follow the news about food, you’re no doubt aware that there’s a lot of concern over the impact of eating and raising meat, on both human health and the planet. A new study provides more to chew on: It suggests that if we halved our meat consumption by 2050, we could make huge emissions cuts and save millions of lives. The Oxford University researchers who published their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences don’t expect the whole world to suddenly switch to vegenaise.